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Hard Times: For These Times (commonly known as Hard Times) is the tenth novel by English author Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the social and economic conditions of the era.
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To boost slumping sales Dickens serialised his own novel, Hard Times, in weekly parts between 1 April and 12 August 1854. It had the desired effect, more than doubling the journal's circulation and encouraging the author, who remarked that he was, "three–parts mad, and the fourth delirious, with perpetual rushing at Hard Times ".
Hard Times (Canadian TV series), a 1975 Canadian documentary series; Hard Times (British TV series), a 1977 British series based on Dickens's novel "Hard Times", a 2001 episode of Canada: A People's History; The Hard Times of RJ Berger, a 2010 TV series; NWA Hard Times (est. 2020), a professional wrestling pay-per-view event
Thomas Gradgrind is the notorious school board Superintendent in Dickens's 1854 novel Hard Times who is dedicated to the pursuit of profitable enterprise. [1] His name is now used generically to refer to someone who is hard and only concerned with cold facts and numbers.
This book, like its predecessor Chartism and Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), presents a further analysis of the condition-of-England question. Carlyle contrasted the medieval past and the turbulent Victorian present of the 1830s and 1840s. For him, the latter was a time of uncontrolled industrialisation, worship of money, exploitation of the weak ...
The bibliography of Charles Dickens (1812–1870) includes more than a dozen major novels, many short stories (including Christmas-themed stories and ghost stories), several plays, several non-fiction books, and individual essays and articles.
The novel is also notable for two of Dickens's great villains, Seth Pecksniff and Jonas Chuzzlewit. In keeping with the theme of greed and selfishness in this novel, the Christmas story Dickens published in December 1843, as this novel was being serialized, was A Christmas Carol.